Interesting as the trend I've noticed when out shopping at one supermarket - Tesco, is for the shelves to become increasingly dominated by processed food and in particular brand-crossovers... a kind of post-modern supermarket of signs diet which generates the most £££

Technology is increasingly leading us into the kind of hyper-reality postmodern theorists like Baudrillard set out.

I've seen some pretty alarming graphs charting the ratio of Doctors to the population 65+

The intense alienation of postmodern, post-covid life.

The truly scary thought is that as bad as we think it is now those demographics are nowhere near to wreaking the havoc that they will in the next decade.

Demolish and rebuild in less than 20 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It will certainly be a test to see whether Farage has been able to break his habit of presiding over parties with next to no organisational backbone. In his UKIP days councillors were left with no support and many became disillusioned enough not to stand for re-election.

Three big factors 1.) The decline of the pub (pubs had a huge role in organising supporting activities and sports teams) 2.) Liberalisation of Sunday trading laws and 3.) Shareholder capitalism (firms reduced spending on leisure facilities for staff - think of all those old sport and social clubs)

Spot on - also echoes of 'plucky little Belgium'. It highlights how people in cities have a limited understanding of the politics of rural England which are in some ways much more progressive and radical than people give credit for.

Wonder how many graduates are in non-graduate jobs too?

There also needs to be more agility. Proper need for life-long access to learning to allow people to access jobs which are more in demand in the present, or short to medium term.